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    Death at the border: 4 from Guatemala, 3 of them children, succumb to heat in Texas

    by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times Jul 08, 2019 6 minutes

    LA BLANCA, Guatemala - Her sister had made the trek last year, following a familiar script: Cross into U.S. territory from Mexico with a minor child, surrender to the Border Patrol, and apply for political asylum - then get released and launch a new life in the United States.

    Briseyda Lisseth Chicas Perez, 20, a one-time hometown beauty queen known for her buoyant personality, headed north last month with her husband and their two small children. They traveled more than 1,000 miles overland through their native Guatemala and Mexico to the Rio Grande.

    But once they reached the border, things went tragically awry, one of a series of recent calamities involving U.S.-bound migrant families that have highlighted the perils - especially for children exposed to risks once largely undertaken by single men.

    On June 23, Border Patrol agents found the bodies of Chicas Perez and her 18-month-old son, Denilson, along with the remains of two other children,

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